Ted Kennedy Dies of Brain Cancer at Age 77
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londonfog
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Acting like a baby ...ROFL...Did you not read the assinine comments that you are making...You resort to name calling and then say someone acting like a baby...dude you are wasted and its not on weed.....but anyway.... For someone who does not vote you sure complain alot about who you have in office..and yes you might want to ignore me because when i speak I will not talk just out the side of my neck but present you with facts as well...It seems that you only want to hate and blame it on being high
Phenom420
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lol save it for someone who couldn't possibly care less.
londonfog
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wow ...now see me being a man of my word if I said I was going to ignore someone I would..I don't just talk it I do it...just goes to show that you say things that you don't really mean ...which is very confusing...be a man of your word...ROFL...Its cool though maybe I can make you see the way..
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CrackerJax
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Anyone trying to make Teddy an icon has an uphill battle. Longevity in office alone is what will carry him, not his methods, which were fundamentally flawed. He had some good ideas (they aren't hard to come up with), but as with all things liberal, didn't know how to get there.
CrackerJax
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He was a kind person however. His death does not bode well for the country I'm afraid, but until the collapse arrives let's remember a few good things before everything gets drowned out. Here's one for Teddy.
Ted Kennedy’s “Littlest Refusenik”
Posted by DORIAN DE WIND in At TMV, Education, Health, International, Places, Politics, Science & Technology, Society.
Aug 26th, 2009 | View commentsComments
Only a few hours after the passing of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, there is a flood of stories on the life and the accomplishments of the Lion of the Senate.
The vast majority of the stories are complimentary of the Senator. There are some exceptions. As all humans, Ted Kennedy had his flaws and made his share of mistakes.
I understand that the Senator will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Perhaps, “the rest of the story,” the recounting of Ted Kennedy’s faults and mistakes can wait till afterward.
For now, I am relishing the stories that are coming out on the Senator’s goodness and compassion.
Some I was aware of, some I wasn’t—such as the one I just watched on CNN.
It is the story about how Ted Kennedy, in 1978, as a young U.S. Senator from Massachusetts saved the life of a tiny baby who was dying in a Moscow hospital.
The baby, Jessica Katz, daughter of Jewish parents Boris and Natalya Katz, suffered from a malnutrition deficiency that stopped her from growing. In essence, she was dying because she couldn’t digest milk products, and no lactose-free formula was available in the Soviet Union back in those days. All she needed to keep her alive—at least for the time being—was that lactose-free baby formula, something that was available in the West, in the United States.
According to CNN.com, Jessica’s grandmother, who had immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, was bravely campaigning to get her baby granddaughter out of the Soviet Union:
Eventually, the grandmother’s pleas reached Senator Kennedy, and he decided to step in. While in Moscow in September 1978 for a meeting with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, Ted Kennedy urged Brezhnev “to let the Katz family — or at the very least, Jessica — leave the country immediately.”
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was persuaded by Ted Kennedy to allow the family to emigrate to the United States because of Jessica’s medical condition.
The rest is history, but a very interesting and compelling history, that can be read at CNN.com, at “‘Littlest refusenik’ on Kennedy: ‘He saved my life’”
The “littlest refusenik” is the now 31-year old, newlywed Jessica Katz, who works at finding housing for the homeless in New York City—”Inspired by Kennedy’s life of public service.”
She says: “[Senator Kennedy] saved my life. He could have spent his time doing anything. He’s from the fanciest, most powerful family in Massachusetts, and probably in the country, and he decided to spend his time helping out me and my family.”
There is more to the story of Senator Kennedy’s intervention: some anxious moments and days before the Katz family was allowed to depart the Soviet Union, their arrival and settling in their new country, etc.
For this, please go to CNN.com.
A video on on this story can be viewed here.
CNN will air the HBO documentary “Teddy: In His Own Words,” “chronicling the senator’s life from his childhood through his speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention,” tonight at 7 ET. It includes rarely seen archival footage.
There are many other stories about the Senator’s compassion and charity.
An article by Tom Moroney at Bloomberg. com, “Kennedy’s Compassion, Assistance Endeared Him to Massachusetts,” has a few such stories on consoling families after 9/11; intervening in support and honor of our heroes in Iraq, saving lives and saving jobs, etc.
Ted Kennedy’s “Littlest Refusenik”
Posted by DORIAN DE WIND in At TMV, Education, Health, International, Places, Politics, Science & Technology, Society.
Aug 26th, 2009 | View commentsComments
Only a few hours after the passing of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, there is a flood of stories on the life and the accomplishments of the Lion of the Senate.
The vast majority of the stories are complimentary of the Senator. There are some exceptions. As all humans, Ted Kennedy had his flaws and made his share of mistakes.
I understand that the Senator will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Perhaps, “the rest of the story,” the recounting of Ted Kennedy’s faults and mistakes can wait till afterward.
For now, I am relishing the stories that are coming out on the Senator’s goodness and compassion.
Some I was aware of, some I wasn’t—such as the one I just watched on CNN.
It is the story about how Ted Kennedy, in 1978, as a young U.S. Senator from Massachusetts saved the life of a tiny baby who was dying in a Moscow hospital.
The baby, Jessica Katz, daughter of Jewish parents Boris and Natalya Katz, suffered from a malnutrition deficiency that stopped her from growing. In essence, she was dying because she couldn’t digest milk products, and no lactose-free formula was available in the Soviet Union back in those days. All she needed to keep her alive—at least for the time being—was that lactose-free baby formula, something that was available in the West, in the United States.
According to CNN.com, Jessica’s grandmother, who had immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, was bravely campaigning to get her baby granddaughter out of the Soviet Union:
At first she helped urge American tourists to take baby formula to Moscow for the Katz family, and for a little while, it worked. It seemed to bring Jessica back from the brink.
But it wasn’t enough. The Katz family knew they needed a permanent solution — access to doctors in the West.
Because Jessica’s father had been exposed to government secrets, the Soviet government denied her and her parents permission to leave the Soviet Union to seek treatment abroad.But it wasn’t enough. The Katz family knew they needed a permanent solution — access to doctors in the West.
Eventually, the grandmother’s pleas reached Senator Kennedy, and he decided to step in. While in Moscow in September 1978 for a meeting with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, Ted Kennedy urged Brezhnev “to let the Katz family — or at the very least, Jessica — leave the country immediately.”
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was persuaded by Ted Kennedy to allow the family to emigrate to the United States because of Jessica’s medical condition.
The rest is history, but a very interesting and compelling history, that can be read at CNN.com, at “‘Littlest refusenik’ on Kennedy: ‘He saved my life’”
The “littlest refusenik” is the now 31-year old, newlywed Jessica Katz, who works at finding housing for the homeless in New York City—”Inspired by Kennedy’s life of public service.”
She says: “[Senator Kennedy] saved my life. He could have spent his time doing anything. He’s from the fanciest, most powerful family in Massachusetts, and probably in the country, and he decided to spend his time helping out me and my family.”
There is more to the story of Senator Kennedy’s intervention: some anxious moments and days before the Katz family was allowed to depart the Soviet Union, their arrival and settling in their new country, etc.
For this, please go to CNN.com.
A video on on this story can be viewed here.
CNN will air the HBO documentary “Teddy: In His Own Words,” “chronicling the senator’s life from his childhood through his speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention,” tonight at 7 ET. It includes rarely seen archival footage.
There are many other stories about the Senator’s compassion and charity.
An article by Tom Moroney at Bloomberg. com, “Kennedy’s Compassion, Assistance Endeared Him to Massachusetts,” has a few such stories on consoling families after 9/11; intervening in support and honor of our heroes in Iraq, saving lives and saving jobs, etc.
CrackerJax
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He did do the doing.....
Good ideas with no way to get there is not efficient govt. He's no shining example in that regard.
Good ideas with no way to get there is not efficient govt. He's no shining example in that regard.
CrackerJax
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Petered out eh? 
Phenom420
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I got a hell of a toothach and just don't feel like it this morning, I have to flush 6 more plants so anyways...Petered out eh?
Hows your day goin Bud?
CrackerJax
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Always good in cracker land. Lobster for breakfast.... (oops...your tooth)..
Phenom420
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I tend to lean to reese ice cream.....Always good in cracker land. Lobster for breakfast.... (oops...your tooth)..
I got meth mouth without doin meth ever LOL.
I got a problem where i grind my teeth n my sleep, and they break... That sucks a big ol penis.
Phenom420
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CrackerJax
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Hahaha! That was quite funny.... if only it were true.
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